Year 3 Problem Solving Unit | Maths Word Problems, Strategies, Games & Assessment
Year 3 Problem Solving Unit | Maths Word Problems, Strategies, Games & Assessment
Build confident Year 3 problem solvers with this complete mathematics unit of work. Students learn a clear Read, Mean, Maths, Do, Answer routine, choose efficient strategies, solve multi-step additive and multiplicative word problems, and explain how they know their answers make sense.
Designed for Australian Curriculum aligned Year 3 Mathematics lessons, small groups, maths rotations, revision, intervention, extension and assessment.
What’s Included
- Editable PowerPoint teaching presentation
- Editable 10-question PowerPoint quiz
- Problem Solving Toolkit classroom display
- Strategy Solver Cards and Read, Mean, Maths, Do, Answer task cards
- Problem Path board game
- Six student worksheets covering structured problem solving, strategy choice, multi-step problems, working backwards, patterns, tables and diagrams
- Matching answer pages for every worksheet and the assessment
- Problem Solving Challenge assessment
- Year 3 Problem Solving marking rubric
Learning Focus
- Use a structured problem-solving routine
- Choose efficient strategies such as drawing a diagram, making a table, working backwards, making a list, finding a pattern, and guess and check
- Solve additive and multiplicative word problems
- Model practical contexts, including money and classroom situations
- Find patterns in tables and diagrams
- Explain working, check reasonableness and write final answer sentences
Classroom Use
Suitable for whole-class Year 3 mathematics lessons, small groups, maths rotations, revision, intervention, extension and assessment.
Aligned with Australian Curriculum v9.0 codes AC9M3A02 and AC9M3N06.
This is a digital resource. No physical item will be shipped.